Keinan Holly Quotes

#1. We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy.

Garrison Keillor

#2. They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.

Jonathan Swift

#3. The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity.

Annie Dillard

#4. A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.

Northrop Frye

#5. I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.

Julia Cameron

#6. I'm not trying to prove anything.

Rita Wilson

#7. If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Nelson Mandela

#8. The reason she had taken the long way round was on the unlikely chance that she might engineer an "accidental" meeting with Benjamin Cole.

Kate Atkinson

#9. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

Julian Jaynes

#10. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

Albert Camus

#11. Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#12. It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

Richard Reti